Read part one here. The start of the First World War saw Sylvia sign up as a nurse, but she could not stand the sight of blood, and she ended up in the pantry doing the dishes. At the end of the year, Vyner also returned to England just as his father arrived in Sarawak. Sylvia [read more]
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is perhaps the most famous woman alive and yet we actually know very little about her. We will probably have to wait until her death to be provided with an official biography and until then we are left grasping at what we can see in the press. Elizabeth [read more]
From the Queen to the German Crown Princess – Osborne, 18 February 1880 What has not happened since I last wrote! That frightful accident to poor Louise who is going on quite well – thank God. And then the awful monstrous new attempt on the poor Emperor of Russia’s life. In his own house! It [read more]
Princess Maria Volkonsky was born Maria Raevskaya on 25 December 1805 as the youngest daughter of Russian general Nikolay Raevsky and Sophia Konstantinova. Her mother wrote, “She is totally unlike anyone in the family. Her face is all eyes – very dark with long lashes… She gazes at me unsmilingly, and she does not even [read more]
Joan of Acre’s first marriage was of her father’s choice. However, after the death of her first husband, she did something that shocked the English court – marrying against her father’s wishes. This caused quite the outrage from her hot-tempered father. But Joan was eventually able to win her father over to her side. Early [read more]
Lee Radziwill, the younger sister of former first lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and former royal through her second marriage to Polish Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł, reportedly died at the age of 85 last Friday. She was born Caroline Lee Bouvier on 3 March 1933, in Southampton, New York, to John Vernou Bouvier II and Janet Norton Lee [read more]
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